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Tag Archives: Zombies
There are monsters in my TV!!!!
And they’re both on one Blu-Ray disc! 80s classics The Video Dead and Terror Vision have finally made it back to the home “video” market after a long hiatus (aka: the VHS days). So while everyone else was watching the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, aliens, creature feature, gay horror, living dead, TerrorVision, The Video Dead, undead, Zombies
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Mimesis: when Scream meets Night of the Living Dead
If you are a fan of Scream and Night of the Living Dead, it’s hard for me to imagine that you wouldn’t enjoy the hell out of Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead. Mimesis is a great word to use … Continue reading
Santa’s work is not yet done—so many boys and girls have been NAUGHTY!
After posting the 12 horrors of Christmas, I’ve decided to help us get over the post-holiday/winter blues by keeping the Christmas spirit alive (correction—dead) in a handful more holiday horror movies! You can also check out my full list of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Cadaver Christmas, Saint Nick, Silent Night, Silent Night Deadly Night, slashers, Zombies
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Resident Evil Six or Resident Evil Sux?
So we all know that beginning with Resident Evil 4, Capcom gave up on the classic survival horror genre and turned it into an action series to gain not a BIGGER audience, but a DIFFERENT audience. And they succeeded. No … Continue reading
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Tagged Resident Evil 6, survival horror, video games, Zombies
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My kind of video game: zombies, cheerleaders, headless hunks, and 80s love
Forget the story, suspense, or scares of survival horror. Lollipop Chainsaw is a straight up hack n’ slash arcade style video game that is loads of zombie slaughtering fun. It’s just you, a chainsaw, a hot dumb cheerleader sucking on … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, arcade games, Lollipop Chainsaw, video games, Zombies
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Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
There’s really no better way to title a blog post about the 1973 movie Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. Probably one of the best horror movie titles ever. And it’s by Bob Clark, who went on to direct Black … Continue reading
What comes from the 80s…and comes up from the sewers?
Do I have to spell it out? Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. C.H.U.D. 1984’s C.H.U.D. is one of those movies that all Gen-Xers will have fond memories of watching on cable. Upon a rewatch, it definitely made me nostalgic. It has … Continue reading
My Re-animator re-experience…
I saw the original 1985 Re-Animator when it first came on cable (which probably would have been a year later), and it never stuck with me as a favorite in my huge list of favorites, while many consider it a … Continue reading
Nothing like adding another derivative zombie film to the collection
While Resident Evil and 28 Days Later are the first films that will most likely come to mind when you first watch Devil’s Playground, you’ll be happy to know that all the zombie/infected traditions are firmly in place. The film … Continue reading
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: this zip code will never be the same…
Let’s face it. The Survival Horror genre hasn’t, well, survived the horror of game companies obsessed with satisfying action fans. Recent outings of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Alone in the Dark have mostly disappointed long time fans of these … Continue reading
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Tagged Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil, survival horror, video games, Zombies
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